Spacing out
please do
By Faith Okamoto
I have a draft of the Introduction section of my qualifying exam! To celebrate,
here’s a code critique of one of the papers I’m citing.
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👋🏽 My CV is available. 👋🏽
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Schedule update
hello qualifying exam
By Faith OkamotoMy qualifying exams are approaching at the end of the academic year. In addition, I have several other personal projects which I will be devoting time to. Thus, for the foreseeable future of this year, I will be updating every other week, unless I have something I want to blog... [Read More] -
Quality of life updates
one of those easy things to neglect
By Faith OkamotoI’ve been on holiday, so this will be a quick one. We have a release scheduled for Monday that I suspect I’m going to end up doing. That led to me looking at the changelog for this update. There is a… pattern. [Read More] -
Understanding an API
December 2025
By Faith OkamotoIt’s the holidays and I just needed to find some article to write about. So I’m going with the marker paper for minimap2. It’s a hugely important tool in my field but I don’t think I’ve ever looked at its code. [Read More] -
Documenting the magic button
When simplifications become confusing
By Faith OkamotoI’ve been running someone else’s pipeline (that most terrible of tasks) and, unsurprisingly, have issues. This post will be about one of those issues. [Read More]